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    Airframe Family: Stinson L-5/OY/U-19 Sentinel / O-62
    Latest Model:L-5 Sentinel
    Last Military Serial:42-98248 USAAF
    Construction Number:76-0489
    Last Civil Registration:N57797
    Compressed ID:Stinson L-5 sn 42-98248 USAAF cn 76...
    Latest Owner or Location:Classic Independent Aviators, 391 Squadron, Hoogeveen Airfield

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    Dates

    Event

    1943

    Constructed as a L-5.

    1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-98248.

    To unknown owner with c/r N57797 (L-5, 76-489).

    By 1985

    Markings Applied: Guinea Short Lines, 376489

    23 October 1985


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Stopping over at DuPage Airport, West Chicago, IL

    From 1992 to 2001

    To Robert M. Heuer, Bloomingdale, IL keeping c/r N57797.

    From 2001 to January 2005

    To C. Raucci, Medinah, IL keeping c/r N57797.

    3 March 2005

    Civil registration PH-SEN reserved.
    Reserved for owner in Netherlands.

    19 April 2005

    To Egmond Aircraft, DE keeping c/r N57797.

    April 2005

    Delivered to Hoogeveen airfield in the Netherlands.

    Circa May 2005

    To unknown owner with c/r N57797.
    Owner in Netherlands.

    By May 2006

    Markings Applied: 6C-C, 298248
    Marked as 14th Liaison Squadron, 9th Air Force.

    21 March 2007

    Civil registration PH-SEN reserved but not taken up.
    Reservation for c/r PH-SEN cancelled.

    14 May 2009

    Civil registration PH-SEN reserved.
    K.A.Doornbos, Eelde reserved.

    24 August 2009

    Civil registration, N57797, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Eelde.

    1 September 2009

    Assigned civil registration: PH-SEN
    K. A. Doornbos, Eelde, Netherlands.

    12 October 2009

    Civil registration, PH-SEN, cancelled.
    Reported as exported to USA but aircraft remained in Netherlands.

    4 November 2009

    To Southern Aircraft Consultancy Inc Trustee, Cornwall with new c/r N57797.
    Civil registration reactivated.

    16 September 2010

    To Southern Aircraft Consultancy Inc Trustee, Dereham Norfolk keeping c/r N57797.

    29 March 2012

    To Jennifer Harcourt, Anna Paulowna, Netherlands keeping c/r N57797.

    By September 2014

    To Classic Independent Aviators, 391 Squadron, Hoogeveen Airfield.

    3 July 2021


    Photographer: Ronald van der Valk
    Notes: Stinson L-5 Sentinel N57797 - s/n 76-489 painted in full D-Day invasion mks as 298248 (42-98248)/6C-C of 14 Liaison Squadron USAAF. https://www.middlewich-heritage.org.uk/RAF_Cranage/u.s.a.a.f.-no.14-liaison-sqn.html
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